January 1, 2009, New Year's Day
January 1, 2009, A man is shot and killed at California's Fruitvale BART station by a Bay Area Rapid Transit officer
January 1, 2009, Virgin Galactic and the U.S. state of New Mexico sign a US$150-250 million agreement to launch sub-orbital commercial space flights at Spaceport America, near Las Cruces and Truth or Consequences
January 2, 2009, A Swedish charter aircraft carrying 150 passengers touches down at Baghdad International Airport, becoming the first European commercial flight to land there since 1990.
January 3, 2008, Israel's Defense Forces launch a ground attack on the Gaza Strip
January 4, 2009, United States President-elect Barack Obama nominates Virginia Governor Tim Kaine to be the Democratic National Committee's next chairperson
January 5, 2009, United States President-elect Barack Obama nominates Leon Panetta to be the Central Intelligence Agency's next Director
January 7, 2009, The United States Congressional Budget Office estimates that the federal government will run a record $1.2 trillion budget deficit in fiscal year 2009, that the current recession will last well into this year, and that the enactment of an economic-stimulus plan would increase that deficit.
January 7, 2009, Mysterious roar heard from space
January 8, 2009, The United States Congress certifies the results of the 2008 presidential election, confirming Barack Obama as President-elect
January 8, 2009, The BCS National Championship Game Florida Gators defeat the Oklahoma Sooners at the Orange Bowl in Miami
January 8, 2009, The United Nations suspends humanitarian aid operations in Gaza after receiving fire from the Israel Defense Forces
January 8, 2009, The UN Security Council votes, with the United States abstaining, to adopt Resolution 1860, which calls for a ceasefire in the conflict. However, Israel and Hamas continue their actions
January 8, 2009, -The Bank of England cuts interest rates to 1.5 percent, its lowest level in its 315-year history
January 9, 2009, Israel and Hamas ignore the United Nations Security Council's call for a ceasefire in the conflict in the Gaza Strip
January 9, 2009, Microsoft Corporation releases the beta version of its Windows 7 operating system.
January 9, 2009, MV Sirius Star tanker is returned for 3 million in ransom.
January 13, 2009, Israeli Defense Forces advance on Gaza City and engage in urban warfare with Hamas militants
January 13, 2009, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announces a €50-billion economic stimulus package
January 13, 2009, The United States' trade deficit shrank by 28.7 percent in November 2008 to its lowest level in five years
January 13, 2009, Citigroup announces a merger deal with Morgan Stanley
January 14, 2009, Steve Jobs takes a six-month medical leave of absence as CEO of Apple Inc.
January 14, 2009, United States Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Philadelphia Fed Bank President Charles Plosser differ publicly on stabilizing the economy
January 14, 2009, U.S. retail sales plunged a seasonally adjusted 2.7 percent in December 2008 from November, the Commerce Department estimates
January 14, 2009, In an audio message, Osama bin Laden urges Muslims to launch a holy war on Israel
January 15, 2009, President George W. Bush bids farewell to the United States in a 15-minute televised address, during which he touted his record and warned his successor, Barack Obama, to maintain an aggressive stance against terrorism
January 15, 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 was a commercial passenger flight that ditched in the Hudson River with all 155 on board surviving
January 15, 2009, NASA announces that methane in Mars' atmosphere "could be produced either by geological activity or by life."
January 15, 2009, Despite the corruption scandal surrounding Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, the United States Senate confirms Roland Burris as a member
January 15, 2009, China's gross domestic product grew 13 percent during 2007, overtaking Germany to become the world's third largest economy.
January 15, 2009, Jobless claims in the United States rise 54,000 to 524,000, the first increase in three weeks.
January 15, 2009, Hawaii becomes the first U.S. state and the second media market after Wilmington, North Carolina, to convert to digital television.
January 16, 2009, Computer worm Conficker infects more than eight million Microsoft Windows-based personal computers.
January 17, 2009, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declares a unilateral ceasefire beginning.
January 18, 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 was removed from the Hudson.
January 18, 2009, Phoenix Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers Advance to SuperBowl 43.
January 18, 2009, We are one Inaugural concert for Barak Obama.
January 18, 2009, At 2:00 am Israel Standard Time,Cease Fire is called between Israel and Hamas. However, Israeli Defense Forces will remain in the Gaza Strip until further notice
January 18, 2009, The Republic of China (Taiwan) distributes shopping vouchers to all its 22.7 million citizens as part of a US$2.53-billion plan to stimulate the economy
January 19, 2009, The Palestinian National Authority's Central Bureau of Statistics reports that 1,300 Palestinians were killed; 5,400 were injured; and US$1.9 billion in damage was caused during the 22-day conflict with Israel in the Gaza Strip
January 19, 2009, European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet says that global economic growth in 2009 will be "substantially below" December 2008 forecasts
January 19, 2009, Her Majesty's Government confirms a £300-billion bailout package for the United Kingdom's banking industry
January 19, 2009, Banking shares in the United Kingdom plummet as the Royal Bank of Scotland posts the biggest loss in British history
January 20, 2009, Inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States, at 12:00 noon EST
January 20, 2009, Israel completes the withdrawal of its Defense Forces from the Gaza Strip
January 20, 2009, Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy suffers a seizure and collapses during a private inauguration lunch
January 20, 2009,The United Kingdom's consumer price inflation falls from 4.1% in November 2008 to 3.1% in December 2008
January 21, 2009, Series Premiere of Lie to Me
January 21, 2009, The United States Senate confirms Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State
January 21, 2009, The United Kingdom reports that 1.92 million Britons were unemployed in December 2008
January 21, 2009, President of Ireland Mary McAleese signs a bill confirming the nationalisation of Anglo Irish Bank
January 21, 2009, Toyota surpasses General Motors to become the world's largest automaker
January 21, 2009, United States President Barack Obama halts the trials of detainees at Guantánamo Bay Naval Base's detention camp
January 21, 2009, China Central Television omits sensitive portions of U.S. President Obama's inaugural address
January 21, 2009, The missing engine from US Airways Flight 1549 is found at the bottom of the Hudson River
January 22, 2009, Barak Obama retakes Presidental Oath
[Picture is of Benjamin Latrobe: Freemason Architect]
January 22, 2009, Hamas announces it will distribute maximums of €4,000 to families seriously affected by the recent conflict in the Gaza Strip
January 22, 2009, United States President Barack Obama will close Guantánamo Bay Naval Base's detention camp within one year and bans torture
January 22, 2009, Iceland's National Police uses teargas against protesters for the first time since anti-NATO riots in 1949
January 22, 2009, Two Sanlu Group executives are sentenced to death for endangering public safety during China's 2008 milk scandal.
January 22, 2009, General Motors receives a second loan installment of US$5.4 billion
January 23, 2009, The number of unique Internet users reached one billion in December 2008
January 23, 2009, Japan launches the world's first greenhouse-gas-monitoring satellite, Ibuki, from the Tanegashima Space Center
January 23, 2009, Two children and one adult are stabbed to death in a Joker mimic attack on a crèche in Belgium
January 23, 2009, The United Kingdom enters a recession
January 26, 2009, Annular solar eclipse
January 26, 2009, Soon we may get the first ever glimpse of the dark side of the sun. Well, no, there's no actual dark side of a luminous ball of burning gas, but there is an effective darkside, as in, the side of the sun we can't see at any given time. The perfect spherical view will come on Feb. 6, 2011. Right now the satellites, which were launched in October 2006, are about 90 degrees apart, which allows a picture of about 270 degrees of the sun — the fullest view yet.
January 26, 2009, The Icelandic government and banking system collapse; Prime Minister Geir Haarde immediately resigns
January 26, 2009, United States pharmaceutical company Pfizer announces it will buy rival Wyeth in a US$68-billion deal
January 26, 2009, A set of human octuplets are born alive for the second time in the United States
January 27, 2009, United Kingdom Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Peter Mandelson unveils a £2.3-billion bailout for the British motor industry
January 27, 2009, Iran will have enough enriched uranium to make a single nuclear weapon later this year, the International Institute for Strategic Studies predicts
January 27, 2009, Release of Bruce Springsteen's Working on a Dream
January 28, 2009, The United States House of Representatives passes the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
January 28, 2009, The World Economic Forum begins its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland
January 28, 2009,The IMF issues its worst outlook for the world economy in 60 years
January 28, 2009, The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board prepares its final report on the 2007 collision between two news helicopters in Phoenix, Arizona.
January 29, 2009, Barak Obama picks Steelers too win Superbowl
January 29, 2009, Bronze fiber glass Shoe statue in Iraq is dedicated too Bush Shoe thrower.
January 29, 2009, The Illinois Senate votes unanimously to remove Governor Rod Blagojevich from office and bar him from future state employment. Lieutenant Governor Pat Quinn is sworn in to finish Blagojevich's term
January 30, 2009, Michael Steele is elected RNC Chairman
January 30, 2008, "The Simpsons" Denies Involvement In Bart's Scientology Promotion by Nancy Cartwright
January 30, 2009, Shoe Statue is removed
January 30, 2009, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announces an investigation into Israel's attack on the U.N.'s Gaza Strip headquarters
January 31, 2009, Michael Phelps is published smoking cannabis from a bong
January 31, 2009, George Obama is arrested for cannabis possession
January 31, 2009, Thousands of Russians protest in response to the government's handling of the current economic crisis
January 31, 2009, Sharif Ahmed, the former leader of the Islamic Courts Union is elected as the President of Somalia
January 31, 2009, Former Cuban President Fidel Castro attacks United States President Barack Obama for supporting "Israeli genocide" against the Palestinian people
February 1, 2009, Pittsburgh Steelers win record 6th Championship in Tampa Bay defeating the Arizona Cardinals.
February 1, 2009, Tampa Bay Deep Sea Explorers Odyssey find renowned British warship the HMS Victory. The wreckage of the HMS Victory, found below about 330 feet of water, may carry an even bigger jackpot. Research indicates the ship was carrying 4 tons of gold coins when it sank in storm, said Greg Stemm, co-founder of Odyssey Marine Exploration, ahead of a Monday news conference in London.
February 2, 2009, The United States Senate confirms Eric Holder as Attorney General
February 2, 2009, Japan's Mount Asama erupts
February 2, 2009, Heavy snow across England closes London City Airport and one runway of Heathrow Airport and shuts down all public transport in London
February 2, 2009, The International Criminal Court announces it will investigate Israeli war crimes possibly committed during Operation Cast Lead
February 2, 2009, Wildcat strikes spread across the United Kingdom
February 2, 2009, A human rights protester throws a shoe at Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao during a speech at Cambridge University
February 2, 2009, The Australian government announces a $42-billion stimulus package to revive the economy and The Reserve Bank reduces interest rates by 100 basis points to 3.25%.
February 3, 2009, Israel announces restrictions on Al Jazeera broadcasts within its borders
February 3, 2009, California's government goes broke and issues IOUs on all expenditures not required by law
February 3, 2009, Australia The Reserve Bank reduces interest rates by 100 basis points to 3.25%
February 3, 2009, Iran announces the launch of its first domestically constructed satellite, Omid
February 3, 2009, Tom Daschle withdraws his nomination to serve as United States Secretary of Health and Human Services and Nancy Killefer withdraws her nomination to serve as Chief Performance Officer
February 4, 2009, The United States Treasury moves to broaden its debt ranging options to raise the trillions of dollars needed to cope with the current recession
February 4, 2009, Unemployment in Ireland sees the highest monthly increase in 40 years, with the equivalent of 1,500 people being laid off daily
February 4, 2009, Fossils from Colombia reveal Titanoboa cerrejonensis, the largest snake ever discovered
February 4, 2009, A fire burned for more than two hours Wednesday at Holy Name Cathedral, severely damaging the attic and leaving gaping holes in the roof of the 134-year-old landmark that is the seat of Cardinal Francis George.
-This was the first built after the Great Fire of 1871 which gave Chicago the phoenix resonance.
February 4, 2009, USA Swimming suspends Michael Phelps from competition for three months following publication of a photograph of him inhaling from a marijuana pipe
February 4, 2009, German public television station ZDF reports that Nazi fugitive Aribert Heim died in 1992
February 5, 2009, Businessman Kazutsugi Nami is arrested by Japanese police over a US$1.4-billion investment scam
February 5, 2009, The Bank of England reduces the base rate of interest to a new historic low of 1%.
February 5, 2009, The number of Americans applying for first-time unemployment payments reaches its highest level since October 1982
February 5, 2009, Somali pirates release Ukraine's MV Faina following a US$3.2-million ransom payment
February 6, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama creates the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board.
February 6, 2009, The U.S. economy lost 598,000 jobs during January 2009, with unemployment rising to 7.6 percent
February 6, 2009, Canada's economy lost 129,000 jobs during January 2009, an all-time record, with unemployment rising to 7.2 percent
February 6, 2009, Bankruptcies in the United Kingdom rose during 2008 by 50 percent to an all-time high
February 6, 2009, California's Alliance Bank and Georgia's FirstBank are closed, raising the number of 2009 U.S. bank failures to eight
February 6, 2009, A teething drug is withdrawn from circulation after killing 84 Nigerian children in three months
February 6, 2009,The United States Food and Drug Administration approves ATryn, the first drug made using genetically engineered animals
February 6, 2009, Somali pirates will release the MV Blue Star and her crew of 28 Egyptians upon receiving a ransom
February 7, 2009, Jennifer Frigge becomes the first woman to swim across the Atlantic Ocean
February 8, 2009, 51st Grammy Awards: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss win Record of the Year for "Please Read the Letter." "Viva la Vida" by Coldplay wins Song of the Year
February 9, 2009, Thirty mummies are discovered in a 2,600-year-old ancient Egyptian tomb at Saqqara
February 9, 2009, France's government announces a €6.5-billion bailout for the automotive industry
February 9, 2009, Bushfires in Victoria, Australia, have now killed at least 130 people and destroyed at least 750 homes.
February 9, 2009, The suspected find of Zeus the god of thunder and lightning birthplace
February 9, 2009, Handler Clifford W. Steele and his Scottish deerhound, Tiger Woods, run in the ring during the Hound Group, which he won, during the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York, on Monday
February 9, 2009, Bishop Richard Williamson is removed from a Roman Catholic seminary in Argentina after denying the Holocaust
February 9, 2009, The Associated Press receives a video showing Pakistani militants beheading kidnapped Polish engineer Piotr Stanczak
February 9, 2009, Major League Baseball player Alex Rodriguez admits using performance-enhancing drugs between 2001 and 2003
February 9, 2009, A fire destroys the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Beijing, China
February 10, 2009, The United States Senate approves the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
February 10, 2009, Mexico will nationally register all its mobile phone users and catalog their fingerprints
February 10, 2009, Australian police combed through a blackened landscape searching for clues in the hunt for possible arsonists on Tuesday as the death toll from the nation’s worst bushfires looked likely to top 200. Victoria's Police Commissioner Nixon launched the nation’s biggest arson investigation, "Operation Phoenix", vowing to catch anyone who started a blaze.
February 10, 2009, Series Premiere Important things with Demetri Martin.
February 10, 2009, Stump, a Sussex Spaniel, sits with its handler Scott Sommer after winning the best In show award at the 2009 Westminster Dog Show on Tuesday in New York.
February 11, 2009, The budget deficit reached US$84 billion in January 2009, due to the financial crisis
February 11, 2009, Iridium Satellite LLC's Iridium 33 and Russia's Kosmos-2251 collide in low-Earth orbit
February 11, 2009, The number of worldwide connections to cellular networks reaches four billion
February 12, 2009, Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. reopens for the bicentennial of assasinated U.S. President Abraham Lincoln's 200th birth
February 12, 2009, 200th Anniversary of Darwin
February 12, 2009, Continental Airlines Flight 3407 crashes into the town of Clarence Center, New York near Buffalo, killing 49 people
February 12, 2009, The United States National Transportation Safety Board concludes that Canada geese caused US Airways Flight 1549 to ditch into New York City's Hudson River
February 12, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI condemns any denial of the Holocaust as "intolerable and altogether unacceptable"
February 12, 2009, Hamas agrees to an 18-month truce in its conflict with Israel, which has not yet responded
February 12, 2009, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez alleges that the Army attempted to overthrow his government
February 12, 2009, Australia announces a national day of mourning for victims of bushfires in Victoria
February 13, 2009, Release of the International
February 13, 2009, The Peanut Corporation of America files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and liquidatio
February 13, 2009, Germany's economy shrank by 2.1 percent in the fourth fiscal quarter of 2008.
February 13, 2009, Blackwater changes its name – to Xe.
February 13, 2009, The Unix time number reaches 1234567890 seconds at 23:31:30 UTC
February 13, 2009, The completion of the first draft of the Neanderthal genome is announced.
February 13, 2009, Australia's Senate approves a $42-billion economic stimulus package
February 13, 2009, The German economy shrinks by 2.1 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2008 as the recession worsens
February 14, 2009, Japan's National Astronomical Observatory completes the first topographic map of the Moon
February 14, 2009, Somali pirates release the Japanese oil tanker Chemstar Venus and its 23 crew members
February 14, 2009, Nate Robinson aka Krypto-Nate defeats Dwight Howard aka Superman in the 2009 All-Star Dunk competition in Phoenix Arizona at the US Airways Center .
February 15, 2009, The 2009 NBA All-Star Game will be held at the US Airways Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Shaq and Kobe Bryant win Co-MVP.
February 15, 2009, Texans report fireball in sky, sonic booms, determined a Meteor and not from the Satellite Collision.
February 15, 2009, Colombia's Galeras volcano erupts
February 16, 2009, BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay's trial begins in Stockholm, Sweden
February 16, 2009, Japan's gross domestic product contracted by 12.7 percent in the fourth fiscal quarter of 2008
February 16, 2009, The British Royal Navy's nuclear submarine HMS Vanguard and the French Navy's Le Triomphant collided in the Atlantic Ocean on February 3 or 4.
February 16, 2009, The United Kingdom's economy is expected to contract by 3.3 percent throughout 2009
February 17, 2009, The United States Securities and Exchange Commission charges Stanford Financial Group Chairman Allen Stanford with fraud
February 17, 2009, Legal charges against The Pirate Bay are amended
February 17, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama will sign the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 in Denver, Colorado
February 17, 2009, General Motors advises the United States Government that it will need an additional $12 billion in loans to stave up bankruptcy
February 17, 2009, Chrysler requests an additional $22 billion in loans from the US Government.
February 17, 2009, California will lay off 20,000 government workers, due to the State Legislature's failure to pass a budget
February 17, 2009, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives in Japan to deliberate the global economic crisis and international security
February 17, 2009, The NASA's Dawn spacecraft will flyby Mars for data and gravitational assist en route to Vesta and Ceres
February 17, 2009, Obama OKs 17K more troops for Afghanistan
February 17, 2009, Release of Grand Theft Auto 4 Expansion: The Lost and Damned
February 18, 2009, Geronimo's kin sue Skull and Bone
February 18, 2009, Barak Obama receives Shaq's All-star Game Shoe while in Phoenix.
February 18, 2009, A Columbian mammoth is discovered in the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California
February 18, 2009, Iran announces it has built an unmanned aerial vehicle capable of traveling 620 miles
February 18, 2009, Lawyers representing the entertainment industry defend their compensation claims of US$13 million against The Pirate Bay
February 18, 2009, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration and European Space Agency will continue with their Europa Jupiter System Mission and Titan Saturn System Missions.
February 19, 2009, California's State Legislature approves a US$143-billion budget and fills a $41-billion deficit with a combination of loans, spending and service reductions, and tax increases
February 19, 2009, The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation locates Stanford Financial Group Chairman Allen Stanford in Virginia and serves him with a fraud complaint on behalf of the Securities and Exchange Commission
February 19, 2009, China claims it has artificially produced snowfall by cloud seeding to ease drought
February 20, 2009, Gold futures reclaim the US$1,000-an-ounce mark
February 20, 2009, New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo subpoenas Bank of America Chairman and CEO Kenneth Lewis for misleading investors during the purchase of Merrill Lynch
February 20, 2009, Saab Automobile files for bankruptcy protection
February 22, 2009, Australia holds a national day of mourning for the 209 confirmed victims of recent bushfires in Victoria
February 22, 2009, Somali pirates hijack Greece's MV Saldanha in the Gulf of Aden
February 22, 2009, The European Council meets in Berlin, Germany, to discuss the current economic crisis
February 22, 2009, Slum"Dog" Millionaire wins best picture of the year at the Oscars.
Seth Rogan announces that the Black man is Downey Jr (Iron-Steel man/Kirk Lazarus starring as Lincoln Osiris) and not Barak Obama who here as been identified with the character.
February 23, 2009, Baghdad Museum reopens after its looting 6 years ago, which focus on Assyrian and Babylonian halls.
February 23, 2009, The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 fall to their lowest levels since 1997. (Los Angeles Times)
February 23, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI selects Archbishop Timothy Dolan to succeed Cardinal Edward Egan as New York's Archdiocese. (New York Times)
February 23, 2009, The death toll from recent bushfires in Victoria reaches 210 as they threaten Belgrave. (ABC News Australia)
February 23, 2009, India approves a £1.7-billion plan to launch its first astronauts into outer space by 2015. (Times)
February 24, 2009, United States President Barack Obama addresses a joint session of Congress. (BBC)
February 24, 2009, NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory lands in the Pacific Ocean near Antarctica after failing to reach Earth's orbit. (Sky News)
February 24, 2009, Ireland's Stock Exchange falls to its lowest level since 1995. (RTÉ)
February 24, 2009, U.S. President Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso pledge to cooperate in stimulating economic demand and combating protectionism. (BBC)
February 24, 2009, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and French President Nicolas Sarkozy agree to cooperate in reviving nuclear power in Italy. (BBC)
February 25, 2009, Three people set themselves on fire near Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. (BBC)
February 25, 2009, Iran tests its first nuclear power plant at Bushehr. (Guardian)
February 25, 2009, Japan's exports plunged 45.7% in January 2009. (BBC)
February 25, 2009, The U.S. arrests 750 people in a national crackdown on Mexican drug cartels. (BBC)
February 25, 2009, An Australian study classifies a fossilized fish as one of the earliest known vertebrates to use internal fertilization. (BBC)
February 26, 2009, United States President Barack Obama will withdraw most soldiers from the Iraq War by August 2010. (CNN)
February 26, 2009, General Motors reports a US$9.6 billion loss, due to the current automotive industry crisis. (New York Times)
February 26, 2009, The Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, catches fire, five months after it was bombed. (BBC)
February 26, 2009, Ajmal Kasab, the 2008 Mumbai attacks' lone surviving gunman, is charged with waging war against India. (Sky News)
February 26, 2009, The Royal Bank of Scotland Group reports a 2008 loss of £24.1 billion. (BBC)
February 26, 2009, The University of Reading identifies the oldest words in the English language. (BBC)
February 26, 2009, A study by the scientific journal Nature shows that HIV is evolving to resist the human immune system. (BBC)
February 26, 2009, The earliest footprints evidencing modern human foot anatomy and gait are discovered in Koobi Fora, Kenya. (BBC)
February 26, 2009, The Svalbard Global Seed Vault receives 90,000 food crop seed samples. (BBC)
February 26, 2009, The United States Defense Department allows news agencies to publicize photographs of the coffins of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. (BBC)
February 26, 2009, The Rocky Mountain News, one of Colorado's largest newspapers, publishes its last issue.
February 27, 2009, A nationwide "Chicago Tea Party" occurred across the United States, where protesters say government spending is out of control. (Fox Chicago News)
February 27, 2009, The U.S. gross domestic product fell 6.2% in the final fiscal quarter of 2008. (MarketWatch)
February 27, 2009, The U.S. federal government will increase its equity stake in Citigroup to 36%. (MarketWatch)
February 27, 2009, The animated sitcom The Simpsons becomes the longest-running U.S. primetime television series after Fox Broadcasting confirms two more seasons. (BBC)
February 28, 2009, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declares a state of emergency, due to severe drought. (BBC)
February 28, 2009, A gene linked to a genetic motor neurone disease is discovered. (BBC)
February 28, 2009, The Holy See claims that the Roman Catholic Church's number of priests is slowly rising. (BBC)
